» Not sure what you mean. If the encoding has slots for F-ligatures
» they have to be filled as good as possible, even if it is rather
» pointless to have them for small-caps fonts. Should we leave them
» empty instead? I don't think that would be much better either.
it's nonsense to fake ligatures that are never directly accessed. What
makes sense is to make active the ligature pointing to ffi ,
e.g. _only_ when the ffi glyph does exist.
This design decision in fontinst (well, in latin.mtx and in the ETX
files) has always puzzled me.
Th. Bouche <http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~bouche/>
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